Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mauritius and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Godley & Creme to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Simply Red tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zapp,
Jeru the Damaja,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yaz,
Agent Orange,
Maleditus Sound,
Chris Corsano,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The American Breed,
Delta 5,
Lightning Bolt,
The Invisible,
Jacob Miller,
The New Christs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Arab on Radar,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Velvet Underground,
the Human League,
The Kinks,
Vladislav Delay,
The Star Department,
the Fania All-Stars,
Hashim,
Essential Logic,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Altered Images,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grey Daturas,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Judy Mowatt,
Tres Demented,
Vainqueur,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sight & Sound,
F. McDonald,
Boredoms,
Nils Olav,
The Raincoats,
New Order,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Harpers Bizarre,
Outsiders,
Hardrive,
Infiniti,
Excepter,
Johnny Clarke,
Dave Gahan,
FM Einheit,
The Residents,
Country Teasers,
Lakeside,
La Düsseldorf,
Cymande,
Faraquet,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
PIL,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Das Ding,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.